Almost 50 k sub. Thats a lot of people that really enjoy your craftman ship, your calming voice, the teaching of many trades, and the nice soft background music ! All our hats off to you, Sir

@rtkville

5 жыл бұрын

AMEN!!!!

@glenngoodale1709

5 жыл бұрын

@@oldschool1993 lol

No begging for subscribers, no Patreon, no merchandise peddling....just pure beautiful craftsmanship shared. Do people like Dave really exist on KZread? You are one of a kind!

I got kind of excited when I saw the title practical blacksmithing. There are so many sites that focus on trinkets or knives. This is the blacksmithing I helped my Grandfather with from time to time. I will have to watch the whole series. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

Not only is he a master of making the wheel right... He's not a bad video editor either.

@bigredc222

5 жыл бұрын

Yea, I'm pretty good at using tools and building thing, but the computer stuff kicks my butt, so being able to do both is pretty impressive, I love the high speed hammering.

@god5535

4 жыл бұрын

I dare you. 2x

I wish I was a young man again and could do an apprenticeship in your shop.

@2HME

5 жыл бұрын

I say the same thing to myself every week after watching his videos, I think I was born in the wrong century...

Building a water wagon is just like eating an elephant. It is done piece by piece (bite by bite). It is awesome to watch you shape the steel as though you were working with clay. Glad you share your craftsmanship with us Dave.

Having that automatic hammer is absolutely of great help!

In Germany it‘s 10 pm. Love to see your videos! Thanks!

@blex5579

5 жыл бұрын

so seh ich das auch..

You are a true Craftsman!

Looks like all the hammers got a work out this week. Enjoyed as always.

@zephyrold2478

5 жыл бұрын

I second that.

Very much enjoyed and gave a Thumbs Up also

+EngelsCoachShop: It is _always_ amazing to me how you manage to essentially _sketch_ a particular shape onto a piece of steel; then, using heat, hammers of various weights/types, an anvil, occasionally a press, along w/ a wire brush, you manage to bring that shape into being. Almost out of _thin air_ ... Wish _I_ had your talent and ability. As is usual, another very good video which garners a _well-deserved_ 👍🏻! Keep 'em comin'. All are greatly enjoyed! 😁

Only you Dave could give "Blazing Saddles" a whole new meaning.

I am so glad I found your site it's a real pleasure to see a true craft man applied his trade.I would love to have the opportunity to visit sit and watch.I am simply amazed at your talent such detail I have told friends if you would like to see a real craft man watch your videos Thanks for sharing your videos.

Thanks for keeping the water wagon original.

Mr Engels you are a true national treasure and should be honored as such in much the same way as the Japanese honor their living national treasures it is an honor to watch you work Thank you so much for sharing it

so many today are to lazy to go through the steps you take to make pieces, they woulda just put in a CNC milling machine and cut them. it is truely a pleasure and amazing to wach you make the peices as they were done before a milling machine was thought of .

Skill, experience and pride in doing it right. A delight to watch every instalment.

Really enjoy watching you work, great job !

Браво мастеру! Песня, а не работа!

Beautiful! Just like Victor at Tustin's blacksmith shop! Tustin, California

Thanks, Mr. Dave for another Friday DELIGHT!!!

Nicely done Dad :-)

@glenngoodale1709

5 жыл бұрын

It sure would be nice if sometimes you could show us some of your welding projects

Way to much fun sir! Great work.

Can never get enough watching how you work. A true master craftsman. Shame that future generations don't start learning this type of trade. Thank you for the video's and the hard work you put into them. Cheers :)

I appreciate the attention to detail and careful replication of the original wagon. Another demonstration of Dave's many fine skills, too.

Enjoyed the awesome forge welding!!!

Totally blown away again by your skill and ability to work iron like you do. I really enjoy watching you turn raw stock into a finished hand made product.

Absolutely beautiful work ,I will have to come visit if you don't mind,

Just incredible. No end to your skills. Its a pleasure watching you work.

Another great video. It is a pleasure to watch you work. Thanks.

...and thanks to you Dave, for making!

this was bloody amazing. you're a craftsman, a delight to watch and beyond price for the know how you possess.

great vid. thanks for showing some pioneer blacksmithing skills ..

Well done! And again, thanks for the upload.

Always a pleasure to watch these videos.

Amazing craftsmanship as always

I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing 👌👍

Very interesting video, I watch all your videos, I know a little work I was a bodybuilder on the trucks.

Thank you! I enjoy watching you videos so much.

Thanks for another great video Dave.

Dave, I couldn't help but think as you were ciphering at the first of the video of the question I'm sure most every youngster, including me, asked when they were in school, "Where will I ever use all this math the teacher is making me learn?" Thanks for another one and please keep them coming. All the best!

it is a joy to watch you . great work Sir

Beautiful work

Really good craftsmanship.

Well done 👍 as always very good video always a pleasure to watch

Beautiful work !! Great methodology and planning in the procedure. I like how you forge welded the back plate on first before the front in order to secure the proper dimensions of the final product. Nice job on the hole punching as well.

thanks again for your time.

Classic Work ! And “Happy No Collusion Day” !

Good afternoon from SE Louisiana 5 Mar 21.

Can you imagine the number of hours that went into hammering out the pieces just made here without a power hammer? As usual, great video.

Just swallowed another bite of the ol elephant.... nice work Dave. 👍👍

The irony of using Borax to flux the forge-welded joints isn't lost...

@davidharris6581

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. But I never found anything that works better than Borax. :)

@yellowboy1866

5 жыл бұрын

@@davidharris6581 I heard sand can work.

@Pocketfarmer1

5 жыл бұрын

What’s ironic about it?

@Crewsy

5 жыл бұрын

Pocketfarmer1 I think he is referring to the fact that this is a Borax water wagon that the originals were used to haul Borax out of the desert.

@Pocketfarmer1

5 жыл бұрын

Wayne Crews thanks ,but I knew what the reference was. If the wagon being built was made of wood and use to haul wood , or made with iron to haul iron ore, would that be ironic ? No . That is not what irony means. Perhaps he meant coincidental. Maybe that’s what all that borax was being mined for in the first place.

la vie en rose ... grace a vous ... merci de nous offrir votre travail... Pierre de Vierzon. France.

Watching you swing that hammer really makes my arms hurt. Very good video as always.

Wow, I just noticed something, you have good penmanship too!

Amazing.

I like the way you use rivets as locator pins for the forge weld. Also, that's a rather unique anvil; a "Texas longhorn" in my mind. Such long horns for such a thin waist.

I enjoyed your video, I have that exact same coal forge..I used to make axes and knives for a living and forged welded up lot of axes with it ( used regular borax as flux too) I never had a power hammer, just used a hand hammer. Won’t get on you to much for “ cheating “ using those nail rivets to hold the parts in place! 😃

looks old ，but still very good!

Seriosly ace 👍👍👍

Nothing quite like the versatility of a coal forge!

A masterclass of old skills and technics, welldone again Dave! I wonder, how are your hands at the end of such a day? Blacksmithing seems to be heavy for your joints.

I watch all your hard work & try to imagian all this work being done without our modern power tools.

متابعة ممتعة من المخيمات السورية على الحدود التركيه

شكرا لك اخي الكريم على هذا العمل الجيد انا بصراحه اقدر لك هدا

Good. Very good.

Dave if you ever have time I would enjoy hearing the story and a bit of history about that drop hammer. Never seen one just like it but I really like it. Especially that big wide throat! Plenty of room to maneuver.

@davidharris6581

5 жыл бұрын

@@EngelsCoachShop Will do. Thanks!

Woah thats a way to forge weld!!

There was a blacksmiths shop when I started my apprenticeship many years ago, I used to watch them making everything from a pair of tongues to brackets and much more. This is dying skill. To take a piece of metal and understand how it will react to hammer blows takes a lot of skill and verges on becoming an art. I have given up counting how many hours I I've watched your videos but I do not care. When I watch these the modern world vanishes to a distant place full of technologies I do not understand, but this I can appreciate. keep on posting the videos.

Thanks for another great video. What do you call the hand-held tool that you put between the power hammer and the workpiece? Is it to spread the force of the tool?

@aubreyaub

5 жыл бұрын

Flatter, smooths out any ridges.

Bravo Respekt Bravo ❤🤝😍

awesome my ninja

1880s ppl would give anything for a few of your modern machines, yet your patience and wood/metalworking skills IMO still well exceed most of theirs.

👍👍👍👍

شكرا لك

Un aplauso para usted.!!

Your machines are amazing. You included. I was looking at the machine used to flatten the metal. It has a lot of pivot points either bolts, bushings or bearings. Do you have to repair, rebuild the machine from time to time?

I'd love to see a project where you do a straked wheel.

Amazing as always, wish there was just a little more details like what was that white powder you put on the white hot metal and why? How do you light up a cold forge?

@burkhardt7372

5 жыл бұрын

Ironically, it's Borax, the very product that this wagon is being used for as part of the 20 mule team that used to haul the Borax out of the mines to the railroad. It's used as a flux to forge weld two pieces of metal together. Dave also built the original wagons in earlier videos.

Amazing expertise and also video excellence with NO music. Thanks for that. How did you make the very sharp 90° corner on the last 2 items (Standards)? You must often wonder how much quicker some of these pieces could be made with modern equipment. Do you clients demand doing it the hard way?

Wonderful stuff, as always. I am curious about the use of an abrasive cutoff blade in your saw. I know there are special carbide-tipped blades designed for cutting various metals. Would something like that be suitable for the kind of metal stock you trim to length? Fewer sparks, at any rate...

Could this have been done without a power hammer? I am still amazed how accurate you are all your work.

@ke6gwf

5 жыл бұрын

Without the power hammer, you just have a couple of strong apprentices with sledge hammers while the blacksmith directs the blows and moves the metal. Basically the same idea as the power hammer, you just have someone with a sledge providing the blows.

@markdoldon8852

5 жыл бұрын

@@ke6gwf with relatively small welds, even a single blacksmith can hand weld. Its hard work, but was and is still done. Thats why power hammers were invented. Trip hammers powered by waterwheels have been around since at least the middle ages, BCE in China.

@ke6gwf

5 жыл бұрын

@@markdoldon8852, yes I agree! With a strong and determined blacksmith, most anything could be done by himself, it would just take a very long time. And the original question was what would be done without a power hammer, and the answer is either a patient lone blacksmith working away, or what was very common was to get one or several people with sledge hammes to speed up the work when a power hammer was not available.

It's amazing to watch you work on these wagons. My question is how did craftsmen do this back in the 1880's, and how long did it take them. You are fast, but those men must have took a long time to accomplish their tasks.

@ClemensKatzer

4 жыл бұрын

And very likely it was many men working on all that in parallel (not one person doing it alone for long time). Those wagons were ordered by a businessman who wanted to transport his borax. So he probably would have wanted to get them done as quickly as possible, and he wouldn't care whether it's 1 man 24 months or 24 men one month. Even better, if it's 24 men 1 months, there would be 1-2 expensive experts and plenty of cheaper, hired hands - the masters having then the job how to use the resources most efficiently. Direct them what to do when etc. Dave said in some other video (the last one of the water wagon, I guess), that this whole project was something like 800 hours of work (not sure was that only the water wagon or all three wagons).

Excellent job as usual. What is the compound you use to forge weld the pieces? It is an interesting process that seems to bond the pieces completely. I get so involved with your videos that I hate to see them end.

Been watching all these great vidoes. Everyone has been a pleasure to watch. The work and the commentary.I have never been near OR on a wagon OR near a horse!Can I ask, when you get onto the iron work you tighten the bolts up with no locking compound. Do the nuts/bolts ever come loose. Is checking a regular exercise?

History Channel should offer you a once-a-week show. Actual history, instead of the junk they rely on these days.

1 piece at a time ,slow but steady will get r done

Other then us you tubers, do you have anyone to pass all this great knowledge on to.

Another very informative video. Are you in the path of any of the recent flooding?

It is always fascinating to me how pliable heavy iron stock is when you get it hot enough. It looks almost like plastic.

That’s a really fast hand hammer you got there , where can I find one of them ?Ha Ha .

i bet you can forge a sweet knife aswell...cheers from germany and keep it up as always.Thats a nice power hammer btw, what does she weigh?

@blex5579

5 жыл бұрын

@@EngelsCoachShop she's purdy. keep it up- all around awesomeness!

That's a fascinating drop hammer, Mr E. I guess it's rather an uncommon model. What make/year is it?

I know that you are duplicating the original design for the Borax Water Tank , however if you where starting from the beginning left to design the entire product to your own design, would you have changed any part of the design that would improve the end product? Just a thought as I see the project progress. I admire your work and thus this question came to me as the work progress! You are a true master in the work that you undertake. Thanks for the videos.

I would like to see how your power hammer works sometime.

Hi what was that powder like stuff you sprinkled on the hot steel and what does it do, love all your vids they are great

Nice work. You didn't show the holes being made. I'm guessing you drift the square ones and drill the round ones.

What type of marker are you using to mark the hot steel?

I would guess you frequently get pits in your eyeglass lenses?? Thanks for your videos.